Paradise

Paradise:

see Eden, Garden ofEden, Garden of,in the Bible, first home to humankind. In it were the trees of life and of the knowledge of good and evil. Having eaten the forbidden fruit of the latter tree, Adam and Eve were banished from the garden and God's presence......Click the link for more information.; heavenheaven,blissful upper realm or state entered after death; in Western monotheistic religions it is the place where the just see God face to face (sometimes called the beatific vision)......Click the link for more information..

Paradise,

uninc. town (1990 pop. 25,406), Butte co., N central Calif., in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada range. It is mainly residential with a growing population. Cattle are raised and fruits, olives, nuts, wheat, and nursery stock are grown. Gold was discovered nearby in 1859.

Paradise

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

Paradise, asteroid 2,791 (the 2,791st asteroid to be discovered, on February 13, 1977), is approximately 20 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 3.7 years. Paradise is a concept asteroid, named after the Garden of Eden. J. Lee Lehman asserts that if this asteroid is well-aspected in a natal chart, the native believes paradise can be found in this existence. If, however, “the asteroid is poorly aspect, then the person is less than optimistic that Paradise exists outside of the movies.” Jacob Schwartz gives Paradise’s astrological significance as “beliefs in perfection.”

Paradise

according to most religious teaching, for example, in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism, the place of eternal bliss for the souls of the righteous.

Sources for the concept of paradise go back to primitive beliefs in the existence of the soul beyond the grave. In the Old Testament, paradise is depicted as a beautiful garden in which the “first man and woman,” Adam and Eve, lived until they were driven out after they fell from grace. In the subsequent development of Christian doctrine, paradise was conceptualized as a place to which the righteous returned after death.

In many religions, the bliss of paradise is contrasted with the torments of the sinners in hell. Unlike the detailed elaborations of conditions in hell, however, representations of paradise are vague and sketchy. The concepts of “paradise” and “hell” are used by the clergy for the religious aims of influencing the consciousness and feelings of believers.

paradise

2.Islam the sensual garden of delights that the Koran promises the faithful after death

3. (according to some theologians) the intermediate abode or state of the just prior to the Resurrection of Jesus, as in Luke 23:43

4. the place or state of happiness enjoyed by Adam before the first sin; the Garden of Eden

Paradise

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However, while the Jewish sources to be surveyed below combined the possible achievement hic et nunc with paradisical terminology, they attempted to elevate the human behavior to less than a common form of experience.

Alternatively, traveller-explorers spoke romantically of preserving the natural beauty and riches of paradisical landscapes, and the interests of simple, effeminate, and child-like natives from the clutches of Western and Asian capitalistic exploiters (Savage 1984).

Thompson skillfully shows how the organization of the novel parallels the three-part structure of The Divine Comedy, as Romola moves progressively from an infernal to a paradisical relationship to Florence, with an interim purgatorial segment as she comes to accept her loveless marriage to Tito Melema and works to achieve, under Savonarola's bidding, her own and Florence's spiritual regeneration.

It is true that film directors now falsify even their own history, but in mid-Stalinism we get the movie "Red Star" about a Soviet collective farm which was so excessively paradisical that it could not be shown in the Soviet Union.

Through a survey of five works by London, Norris and Dreiser, the essay addresses the transformation of the god-like biblical Adam in Genesis into the Darwinian ape; just as the paradisical garden metamorphoses into the bustling industries, and the mills of the jungle of American naturalistic fiction.

Chapter Seven, a useful summary of the views and uses of heaven across the literature, points out such consistent motifs as storehouses for meteorological elements, progressive gates to heaven, paradisical imagery, a host of supernatural beings, a heavenly palace (not, as Himmelfarb and others have argued, a heavenly templ e), heavenly afterlife domains, and the exclusiveness of the true "saints" who might aspire to heaven.

The paradisical society he proposed was to be located at the Valley of the Sun in the Ecuadorian Andes where two of his young "students," living a totally non-materialistic existence in isolation from civilization, were to conceive a child who would serve as the father and teacher of the new race (Sheppard 18).

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